Pocket safety-match holder.



PATENTED MAR. 21

No. 785,500. I

J. KARPEN. POCKET SAFETY MATCH HOLDER. APPLICATION I ILE'D FEB. 1, 1904. RENEWED FEB. 23, 1905.

Patented March 21, 1905.

PATENT EEicE.

JULIUS KARPEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

POCKET SAFETY-MATCH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,500, dated March 21, 1905.

Application filed February 1,1904 Renewed February 23, 1905- Serial No. 246,917.

T 0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I,JULIUs KARPEN,a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Safety-Match Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are the production of a cheap, simple, and convenient match-holder designed to be carried readily in the vest-pocket of the user and adapted to safely store a limited number of matches, preferably of the safety style, in a removable manner and also to afford a strikingsurface for the same.

Other though minor objects of the invention will hereinafter appear; and the invention primarily consists in a match-holder preferably formed of wood and of a shape and style adapting it to be readily inserted into and removed from the vest-pocket of the user, which holder is bored at intervals, thus forming a series of independent match-receptacles, each of the latter being slightly tapered or reduced at its lower end, whereby a match inserted in the bore will have its head lightly wedged therein, and while said match is readily removable yet will be held against accidental removal.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pocket match-holder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, partly broken away to show the same in section. Fig. 3 is an end elevation, partly in section. Fig. t isadetail of a removable striking-panel which may be employed.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In carryingout myinventionIconstructthe holder 1 of any desired external shape, and preferably with rounded corners, whereby it may be readily inserted into and removed from the pocket without danger of tearing the latter. It is preferably oblong in shape and of such width or thickness as will obviate bulging the pocket.

For cheapness and convenience of production I prefer to construct the holder of wood,

flat and at intervals is bored, as at 3, such bored receptacles extending nearly to the bottom of the holder and terminating in reduced ends 4. Each receptacle 3 is designed to accommodate a match, and therefore is slightly greater in diameter for the major part of its length than is the head of the latter. The lower end of the receptacle being tapered or reduced, it will be apparent that the head of the match will become lightly wedged in the receptacle and held against accidental displacement; also, that the match can be readily removed by the user. The length or depth of the receptacles is somewhat less than the length of the matches, and hence the ends of the matches will project beyond the holder in such manner as will permit of them being grasped and withdrawn.

A suitable striking-surface may be located at any desired point of the holder, but preferably at the bottom. In the present instance I have shown employed a panel 5, Fig. 4, made of wood or paper and having a striking-surface 6. This panel may be glued permanently to the bottom or inserted removably within opposite grooved guides 7, formed on the bottom of the holder. WVhen worn, the panel may be removed and another inserted in its place. Perhaps merely applying the striking composition to the holder, however, would be cheapest and serve the purpose. ordinary parlor-match is employed, the striking-surface would of course be formed of sand and glue, and in such instance where a removable panel, as 5, is employed the same could be conveniently cut from sandpaper.

The bored receptacles are preferably in line with the grain, and hence the fiber of the wood will readily lend the yield necessary to grasp the match-heads.

Where the,

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The herein described pocket matchholder, the same consisting of a block of wood flattened at opposite sides and provided with a series of bored individual match-receptacles, each receptacle for the major portion of its length being slightly greater in diameter than a match-head and extending parallel with the fiber of the wood and from one end of the block to a point near its opposite end, said receptacle having its lower end tapered or reduced and adapted to frictionally and lightly engage with the match-head and thereby retain said match against accidental displacement.

2. The herein-described match-holder, the same being externally adapted for pocket use,

and provided with a series of individual matchreceptacles open at one end, such receptacles for the major portions of their lengths being slightly greater in diameter than the matchhead and toward their lower ends slightly tapered or reduced to a diameter less than the match-head and adapted thereby to frictionally and lightly engage with the match-heads and by such frictional contact retain the matches against accidental displacement.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIUS KARPEN. Witnesses:

J. W. GoTTLIEB, M. E. TANGNEY. 

